John 6:60-71 | What am I going to do about it?

This is where the boots meet the ground; where the rubber meets the road. Am I heavenly minded or earthly minded? Am I believing or not believing? As I have sat on this passage, I have to admit that I have been challenged. I have failed to see many things from a spiritual perspective and have not looked unto the Lord as the One who has the words of life as I ought.

Most of us have probably experienced this issue of finding a really good routine and just sitting in the routine. We may have a really righteous looking routine as well: hours in prayer and in the Word, serving other people, doing the work of an evangelist. Yet, after a period of time, it simply becomes what you do. Then you get distracted with other things and that routine still exists, but on a smaller scale. But because the routine is still there, you feel good about it. All the while, your faith is suffering because all that is there is a ritual practice of the day-to-day. This is the routine I got caught in.

I was not indulging into anything bad, but I wasn't fostering and cultivating my faith the way I ought to. So it is time I genuinely bring myself before the Lord and let Him have His perfect work in me.

I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
-John 15:1-4

This is what I bring myself before the Lord in. I must abide in Him, and He in me. I must be pruned.

What application are you taking away?